Ebola EMS patient transport lessons, public access to cardiac arrest data, risks of fake 911 calls and we’ll talk with our good friend Lisa Booze from the Maryland Poison Center about “one pill killers.” If that's what you're looking for, you found it, right here on this week's episode of the MedicCast.More →

Finally, a look at another at-risk population in our communities, pediatric patients. As summer time hits here in the U.S. and kids are going to be out of school, I know it means we’ll have more trauma calls for kids [...]More →

Next up in the news is a new research study from the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury looking at 243 deaths from football for high school and college players between 1990 and 2010. The study found that the bulk [...]More →

Kicking off the news this week we take a look at national substance abuse prevention month announced by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of United States federal government (SAMHSA.gov). SAMHSA has a whole page [...]More →

First off in the news this week is a look at kids with increased stroke risk. That’s right. I said kids with strokes. When is the last time you treated a child or teen with stroke symptoms? Well get ready [...]More →

Next up in the news is a look at a recent study in the journal Pediatrics on how increased prescribing practices for adults has led to an increase in the numbers of pediatric poisonings reported to the nation’s poison centers. [...]More →

With the coming of spring, April brings changes in the weather and windows are opened to allow fresh, warm air into homes. With children in the home, please consider these two important reminders when leaving windows open: Window screens are [...]More →

First off in this week’s news items is a look at how we can become more actively involved in injury prevention. A recent study looking at bicycle helmet use among pediatric patients discovered that doing inpatient training with real information, [...]More →

Patient education and bike helmet use, falling through the cracks during disasters, under-use of epinephrine, and we're going to take a look at the bowel disorder Crohn's disease. If that's what you're looking for on this weeks show, you found it right here on the MedicCast.More →

Otho Boone of the NeoForce Group and Jason Thompson from our episode sponsors, Rapid Deployment Products, join Kyle David Bates on this special episode of Pedi-U recorded at EMS World Expo 2012 in New Orleans.More →

Finally in the news an alarming item that is drawing some conflict out of previous reports on child abuse. For the last 10 years or so, social services have being continually reporting that child abuse cases are on the decline. [...]More →